Posts tagged Election 2012
Cognitive Dissonance
“Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” - William S. Burroughs
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Mitt Romney released his birth certificate
And it’s an obvious fake. First, it has “VOID” stamped down the side. Second, it’s a photocopy - I could forge that in 10 minutes. Third, it is a “certificate of live birth.” Hey, birther websites question documentation of Obama’s birth there because Hawaii provided a “certification of live birth” and not a birth certificate. Turnabout is fair play.
After all, as Mother Jones points out:
The President’s certificate of live birth, reported Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy, “is not the exact birth certificate.” Sarah Palin suggested that the certificate of live birth was insufficient proof of citizenship.
As one leading conservative activist put it, “A ‘birth certificate’ and a ‘certificate of live birth’ are in no way the same thing, even though in some cases they use some of the same words.” That was Donald Trump.
What about this documentation? Is he claiming Gateway is lying? Or was this before he decided to illegitimately seek the presidency? Until he releases the long-form birth certificate, AND meets these demands, I’m still saying he’s a robot. They may say we’re roboters and dismiss it as robotism, but I won’t let that discourage me.
After all, I’m only seeking the truth. What’s more patriotic than that?
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That stimulus he put in place, it didn’t help private sector jobs, it helped preserve government jobs, and the one place we should have cut back was on government jobs. We have a 145,000 more government workers under this president. Let’s send them home and put you back to work!
Mitt Romney, detailing his plan for jobs in Craig, Colo.
Please tell me how firing 145,000 Americans would be good for the economy – not that Romney’s claim is correct. Under the Obama administration, public sector employment has dropped, but private sector employment has grown by 760,000 jobs since Obama signed the stimulus in February of 2009. Since then, public sector employment has dropped by 608,000. Even federal employment has a slower pace of growth than the private sector.
Anyhow, eliminating one job in the public sector does not automatically create a job in the private sector. That’s a ridiculous notion – if Romney is correct, for every teacher, police officer, or postal worker laid off in the public sector, their job became available in the private sector, right?
Right?
Romney’s hatred of the public sector is irrational. Romney supports public sector workers when he can use them as a prop for a photo op, like when he brought pizza to NYC firefighters. Obama may not be the #1 cheerleader for the public sector, but at least he’s not in favor of firing people in the name of job creation.
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Mitt Romney wins Texas, clinches Republican nomination
That’s all. I could put links and such in here, but meh. Wasn’t it a forgone conclusion? Well, except for the convention shenanigans planned by the Ron Paul acolytes…
I could spend several paragraphs dissecting this, but I’m too disappointed. The GOP primary promised to be bread and circuses, yet they’ve left us with the most boring clown in the ring.
So I’ll leave you with this:
“Once upon a time there was a politician who made an especially conspicuous ass of himself and didn’t say the newspapers misquoted him.” — Robert Elliott Gonzales, Poems and Paragraphs
And that, my friends, is Willard Mitt Romney.
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My email to Ariz. Secretary of State Ken Bennett
You know the Secretary of State in Arizona who’s demanding Obama’s birth certificate to certify him for the ballot? I thought I’d give him some helpful suggestions via email:
[Image text pasted below]
[Image Text: Dear Mr. Bennett,
I imagine it can be difficult when you have constituents like Sheriff Joe Arpaio pressuring you to make sure that brown-skinned guy in the White House is really allowed to be president. And then when it appears he really is allowed to serve, well, I bet all hell breaks loose, right? I mean, Sheriff Joe makes a hullabaloo with his report a few weeks ago, stirs even more folks up, and I am sure you just thought, “Why not compromise? Why not send that $5 money order? It’ll make ‘em shut up.”
Well, you gave in to the fringes of this great country. They now own you - or at least they think they do. This is one of many requests I imagine the birther faction will make. Why not verify Mitt Romney? After all, folks just sued in California this March questioning Romney’s eligibility… his dad DID spend time in Mexico… Romney’s claimed several states as his home… Is that not suspicious enough? [Note: I’m being sarcastic, sir, but fair IS fair.]
May I make a suggestion?
Buy these in bulk: [Image of a coffee mug featuring a picture of Barack Obama, Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and the text ‘Made in the USA’]
You can purchase them here. I propose these mugs are a better use of taxpayer dollars in Arizona than kowtowing to the birthers who will likely demand further investigation.
It’s much simpler, too. One of them walks in to your office, your administrative assistant hands them a mug. One of them calls your office, your administrative assistant sends them a mug via USPS. One of them faxes you, well, you get the idea.
I cannot believe a man such as yourself is able to buy into the inherent racism of the birthers and would lack the spine to them no, the White House has already released Barack Obama’s birth certificate, and you can view it online. I pray this was only a momentary lapse of judgment. Right?
Sincerely,
Meg Lanker-Simons
Editor, Cognitive Dissonance
@meglanker
meglanker@gmail.com]
If you’d like to email Ken Bennett, his email is kbennett@azsos.gov. I’ll post a response if I get one.
I’m sick of this shit.
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Ariz. Sec. of State Wants to See Proof of Obama’s Citizenship
It never ends:
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett wants you to know that he is not a birther, but he says he wants proof of Barack Obama’s citizenship before putting his name on the Arizona ballot.
In a radio interview today, Bennett said he is just doing his job of making sure “that those people whose names are on the ballot have met the qualifications for the office they are seeking.” He says he has been trying for eight weeks to get documents from Hawaii.
So that means he’s requesting Mitt Romney’s birth certificate, right? Since it’s verifying everyone, right?
Matt Roberts, Bennett’s spokesman, said in an email that Bennett had not asked for Romney’s Michigan birth certificate because “This was simply in response to some constituents asking us to ask Hawaii,” he said.
In other words, they’re kowtowing to the birthers of Arizona, the most famous of which is Sheriff Joe Arpaio. This suggests something more troubling — instead of having the spine to tell the birther crowd no, it’s easier to waste time and taxpayer dollars placating them.
It’s not about eligibility. It’s about the persistent belief that a black man with a funny name cannot occupy the White House, couched in claims of eligibility.
Any Arizona followers want to start making some noise about Romney’s birth certificate? After all, folks just sued in California this March questioning Romney’s eligibility… his dad DID spend time in Mexico… Romney’s claimed several states as his home… I’M JUST SAYING IT’S WEIRD, OK?
Now go. Question Romney. See what the Arizona SoS has to say.
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From Jim Hoft on The Gateway Pundit, continuing the pseudo-birther claptrap following Elizabeth Warren. A short explanation:
The New England Historic Genealogical Society quickly put out a statement standing by its research suggesting that Ms. Warren is 1/32 Native American.
The society said that particularly with Native American history, history is often passed down orally, and that full paper evidence and documents were often not kept or are incomplete. The society said its research had found records of “several family members who noted Cherokee Indian lineage via Elizabeth Warren’s 3rd great-grandmother.”
Well, Scott Brown is claiming Elizabeth Warren is 1.) not Native American or 2.) only pulls it out to advance her career. As far as career advancement, here’s an answer: Doesn’t look like it.
Kevin Noble Maillard explains it well:
This tactic is straight from the Republican cookbook of fake controversy. First, you need a rarefied elected office typically occupied by a certain breed of privileged men. Both the Presidency and the Senate fit this bill. Second, add a bit of interracial intrigue. It could be Kenyan economists eloping with Midwestern anthropologists, or white frontiersmen pairing with indigenous women. Third, throw in some suspicion about their qualifications and ambitions. Last but not least, demand documentation of ancestry and be dissatisfied upon its receipt. Voila! You have a genuine birther movement.
The Republican approach to race is to feign that it is irrelevant — until it becomes politically advantageous to bring it up. Birthers question Obama’s state of origin (and implicitly his multiracial heritage) in efforts to disqualify him from the presidency. They characterize him as “other.” For Warren, Massachusetts Republicans place doubts on her racial claims to portray her as an opportunistic academic seeking special treatment. In both birther camps, opponents look to ancestral origins as the smoking gun, and ride the ambiguity for the duration.
Hence, the image above. It’s okay to use racist, photoshopped imagery to mock Elizabeth Warren BECAUSE SHE’S NOT REALLY AN INDIAN, YOU GUISE!! </sarcasm> Jim Wrenn goes further in the name of satire. Really:
Wrenn writes:
In response to polling surges by her opponent (Republican incumbent Scott Brown) in the 2012 race for the Senate in Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren-Tonto, noted Native American, Harvard Faculty Member, and Senate Candidate, said to her Lone Ranger sidekick: “It looks like they’ve got us,” to which her sidekick replied, “What you mean ‘us’ White-Eyes?” She replied, “You mean all 1/32nds?”
Why is this particularly terrible? Wrenn is using the 1/32nd Cherokee blood quantum as justification for racist “satire” — however, Warren has the same blood quantum as Bill John Baker, the principal chief of the Cherokee nation.
The perpetuation of slurs by commentators is the saddest part of all this non-troversy. As writer Navajo said on Native American Netroots:
The right-wing’s instant response regarding Warren’s claims of a Native heritage was to make fun of her by slurring Indians with a flurry of insults using stereotypes and calling her “Pinocchio-hontas,” “Faux-hontas,” “Chief Full-of-Lies,” “Running Joke” “Sacaja-whiner” and “Spreading Bull.” A name like Sitting Bull should be treated with respect. Why is this the first thing people think to do when they want to make fun of Indians?
The slurs reminded me of the same sad treatment I received as I was growing up.
When those on the right smear Elizabeth Warren, they smear more people than just Elizabeth Warren. It’s cheap, it’s racist, it’s not satire, and it’s an old, unoriginal canard from the days of slamming women and minorities for benefiting from affirmative action.
Wait… It’s NOT an old canard?
Exactly.
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Dropkick Murphys to WI GOP Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald: Using our music as your intro like "a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap"
Wisconsin Republican Jeff Fitzgerald is running against Sen. Tammy Baldwin, (D-Wis.) for the U.S. Senate. Fitzgerald is BFFs with Gov. Scott Walker and used the Dropkick Murphys song “Shipping Up To Boston” at the GOP Convention this weekend. This is the same band who released “Take ‘Em Down” in support of Wisconsin’s unions and the protesters at the state capital, and have long been friends to organized labor.
Well, they found about Fitzgerald’s musical selection.
We just got word that Wisconsin State Rep and Speaker of the State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald used “Shipping Up To Boston” as his walk-on song yesterday at the Wisconsin GOP Convention in Green Bay.
The stupidity and irony of this is laughable. A Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate - and crony of anti-Union Governor Scott Walker - using a Dropkick Murphys song as an intro is like a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap!
Fitzgerald: if you and your staff can’t even figure out your music you might wanna give up on the politics!!!!!
We stand beside our Union and Labor brothers and sisters and their families in Wisconsin and all over the U.S!
–DKM
Today, Fitzgerald replied:
Fitzgerald on Monday said he meant no harm, and has simply always liked the band and that song, which was featured in the Martin Scorcese film, “The Departed.” He said he doesn’t plan to play the song anymore, but doesn’t know what song he will chose next.
The Departed? Hey, way to burnish your image with a song featured in a movie about the Irish mob… if that’s your reasoning. “Ooh, that one song in that movie I like…”
I challenge Jeff Fitzgerald to name one other song by Dropkick Murphys he likes.
I’ll bet it’s not “Take ‘Em Down.” Or “Worker’s Song”…
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It’s Mexican Mitt Romney!
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Brice Frillici at Rooney’s Lodge, Chris Duncan, Dennis Wilen, Lalo Alcaraz, Al Madrigal, the 718 crew, and all the Pochos in the struggle.Ajua!
Follow @MexicanMitt on Twitter and look for him on Facebook, too!
TOTAL. WIN.
Unfortunately, a lot of young folks haven’t had the opportunity to really understand how the economy works, and what it takes to put people to work in real jobs, and why we have banks, and what banks do. It’s a very understandable sentiment. If you don’t find a job, and you can’t see rising incomes. You’re going to be angry and looking at someone to blame.
Mitt Romney to WBTV in Charlotte, N.C., discussing the protests at Bank of America.
Oh, we young people don’t understand “real jobs” and “what banks do,” yeah?
I argue we do. There’s a lot of us working two and three minimum wage jobs, going to school, graduating, barely surviving, or some combination of the above.
We’re consistently screwed by people like you, Mitt, who gambled with our parents’ retirement, who ensured most of us can never retire, who foreclosed on our families, who laid us off in the name of savings, who pissed away bailouts in executive bonuses and back slaps, as you grin in your expensive suits and tell us repeatedly that we DON’T GET how it works, as you reach into our back pockets for yet another checking account usage fee because we can’t keep a minimum balance, let me tell you…
WE GET IT.
We are fully proletarianized, working ourselves to the bone, paying the same tax rate as you, and praying to whatever is sacred that we do not get sick or injured because we are one paycheck or missed unemployment check away from completed ruin, while you and your cronies line up for another spin at the roulette wheel, your wallets fat from the products of our intellectual and physical labor.
FUCK YOU and your patronizing condescension. Fuck you with the all the fucks my exhausted self has left to give.
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I think I’m the only one sporting a Buddy Roemer sticker at the University of Wyoming. I’m proud.
And yes, that’s a Dr. Hunter S. Thompson quote in the corner.
(Taken with instagram)
I’m truly sad and enraged that Rick Santorum was not subjected to a lecture and a trans-anal ultrasound before aborting his embryonic campaign.
I just want to make sure he has all the information before making such a huge, life-altering decision.
Get on it, Congress. Make a law.
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Dear GOP:
Y’all promised a presidential circus. And now your biggest clown, Rick Santorum, is leaving the ring.
Tsk-tsk. I am disappoint, GOP. You’re leaving us with a cut-rate performer in Mittens. Don’t make me throw in with Moon Man.
Cheers,
Meg
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NO…FUCKING…WAY
Rick Santorum seems to catch himself right before calling President Barack Obama a nigger at about 15 seconds into the video.
Glen Coco at Vice has the scoop:
This is presidential candidate Rick Santorum (holy shit does that look scary written down) delivering a speech in Janesville, Wisconsin a couple of days ago. And, as you can see in the above video, it seems like he might have been on the verge of calling Obama a “nigger”… Santorum’s rolling out the racist gaffes about once a quarter so far in 2012, after this slip of the tongue back in January. (He was actually saying “blah people”, guys! Duhhh.)
Wow. I’m really not sure how he could walk this back, but honestly, with today’s GOP migrating backwards in time, I’m not sure he needs to walk it back.
And that is so very depressing.
So this happened.
Yep.
She’s since deleted the post. Spoiler alert: She was completely serious and totally clueless.
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Official Notice of Eviction
NOTICE OF EVICTION
District Court Ejectment/Eviction Case Number: 028-CV-032012
LANDLORD
- Name: Uteri
- Address: Usually south of the Fallopian Tubes, North of the Vagina
- City, State, Zip: State of Exasperation, Wherever Uterused-Americans reside
TENANT
- Name: The Republican Party
- Address: The uteri of Uterused-Americans
- City, State, Zip: State of Misogyny, wherever Uterused-Americans reside
The sheriff is voters are scheduled to evict you on [date]: 11/06/2012
Warning:
- Once the
sheriff beginsvoters begin the eviction, any personal property that you leave in the premises is considered abandoned. The tenant does not have any right to re-enter the property or re-claim any property after the eviction begins. - Any abandoned property may be disposed of by the landlord at any time after the eviction begins. The landlord is strictly prohibited from putting the abandoned property in the street, the sidewalk, alleys, or any public property.
This is the final notice of the date of the eviction that you will receive.
I hereby certify that I posted a completed copy of the above notice on the premises described above on [date]: March 20, 2012.
Name: Meg Lanker-Simons (Uterused-American) Date: 3/20/2012
(Insert your name and voilà — Instant eviction notice!)
(Source: cognitivedissonance)
